World Cup 2010 Fever

Well, it's June 6, 2010 which means two things: 66 years ago today it was the invasion of Normandy or famously known as D Day. The other thing is that in 5 days, South Africa will ignite the world as nations descend on the African nation to compete in one of the world's coveted sports tournaments, the FIFA World Cup.

With the World Cup, comes with the fever as football (known in North America as soccer) is the world's sport. With the tournament starting in only a few days, I'd like to announce my picks for this year.

Primary Pick:

Brazil

Secondary Picks:

France

England

Netherlands

Spain

I can see Portugal and Germany in the top spots looking at their prior World Cup and Euro Cup track records but the ones that I've picked are in my opinion have a really good chance at gaining the World Cup. The reason why I chose Netherlands is mainly because I believe that by looking at their previous track record, they might go quite far in this tournament. As for the main pick being Brazil is mainly because I find that the Brazilian team usually play very well except for the 2006 disappointment. However, I think within those 4 years, they were able to recuperate and hopefully come out as a much stronger team.

Hopefully, this year all my picks will not be shut out early, the only pick that didn't get shut out early last year was France. I have a feeling that France might be able to pull another 1998 victory thus landing a spot on the Secondary Picks.

Updated: After looking at Spain for the past few years, I think Spain might be able to go really far in this tournament as I've stated before but looking back at EURO2008, I think Spain definitely deserves to be backed as they have a solid team that will do well so Spain makes it onto my list this year.